Cool Startups That Link Builders Can Take Advantage Of

If you’re like me, then you monitor the headlines coming out of sites like TechCrunch and Killer Startups for new companies that you can take advantage of for links & content. Lately, there have been a few that have really started to spark some ideas.

Even though it’s in Beta, this tool, like Piktochart, is yet another fantastic non-link-building link building tool. This allows you to easily create amazing cartoon-like presentations and videos (in this case, I’m more interested in the videos).

Remember how in my visualizations post I talked about not having a great solution for video? Well, now I do.

It gets better: they have a Fiverr-like Marketplace for having professional Powtoonists (great word, isn’t it?) create the presentations/videos for you!

Now that it will be easy to create kick ass videos like this, and because videos can be embedded, I think we’ll start seeing video embeds being used as sole content entities for links just like we do with infographics.

This is a startup all about smarter internal linking for a better user experience. Although it’s still a little unknown how we can use it for SEO, I still think we’ll be hearing from it more & more in the future as it gets introduced to our community.

This is a new website that hopes to be “the next big online business directory”. Although it’s not much at all while still in the early stages of Beta, it might be a directory down the line that all link builders for business sites should know about.

This is yet another new data visualization tool in Beta. I just requested an invite, so I can’t tell you really anything about it, but unlike a lot of the tools in my visualizations post, this seems to be more general data viz than just infographics.